Four Top Production and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

TL;DR

This paper explores four-top quark production at hadronic supercolliders as a novel method to investigate electroweak symmetry breaking, leveraging the heavy top quark's properties.

Contribution

It proposes using four-top production as a new experimental probe for electroweak symmetry breaking mechanisms.

Findings

Four-top production can signal electroweak symmetry breaking effects.

Heavy top quark mass enhances four-top production rates.

Potential for collider experiments to test symmetry breaking models.

Abstract

With the recent discovery of a heavy top quark $(m_t \approx 175 - 200$ GeV), the top quark opens an window to electroweak symmetry breaking. We propose the study of four-top, $t\bar t t\bar t$, production at hadronic supercolliders as a probe to electroweak symmetry breaking.